It wasn’t my judgment that I would become addicted, but the doctor’s. My point was that even if this is correct, that I would become addicted, that “addiction” is extremely benign—far more benign, than e.g. the human “addiction” to food. (You can usefully model humans that way.) It just means that I spend a few extra dollars per year. Big deal.
An addiction is not the end of the world, and when doctors have this hole in their treatment heuristics—where they are constitutionally incapable of weighing addiction against other alternatives—it is a sign to me of shallow understanding on the doctor’s part.
It wasn’t my judgment that I would become addicted, but the doctor’s. My point was that even if this is correct, that I would become addicted, that “addiction” is extremely benign—far more benign, than e.g. the human “addiction” to food. (You can usefully model humans that way.) It just means that I spend a few extra dollars per year. Big deal.
An addiction is not the end of the world, and when doctors have this hole in their treatment heuristics—where they are constitutionally incapable of weighing addiction against other alternatives—it is a sign to me of shallow understanding on the doctor’s part.